On this free site, if you wish to make sure that all of your people are notified of the unveiling, get them to register your loved ones name on the free Email Alert site and when your arrangements are in place, your official notice will be automatically emailed to them.

It will also remain in the Current Notices page for 14 days during which time you may amend it. If you do change it (new time, date etc) then it will automatically create new emails alerting everyone to the changes. When the Unveiling is more than 14 days ahead, if you make a small alteration to the notice on the 14th day, it will continue in Current Notices for another 14 days, and everyone will get another email as a reminder. 

At the end of its time on Current Notices, the notice automatically transfers to the free-to-view permanent Archives.

You are able to include up to five photos, and 5000 words of text, all of which is protected by your password. You may, for example, use the initial email alert notice to tell everyone that the unveiling is coming up, and then, after the event you can add photos- of the event, headstone, whanau, etc and record the names of the attendees, and the words of the service. Because that is an alteration to an archived document it will reappear on current notices as an alteration and get emailed to anyone on the alert group again.

You can take as much time on your draft as you like. Your work is automatically saved every 60 seconds.

Publishing Hints below are for help if you want to get a little more fancy in what you publish, and you will need it for line-breaks in poetry. For straight-forward text, you can safely ignore it.

Publishing Hints.

There is nothing at all difficult about publishing a notice or history. Its really just simply typing it in. However, there are one or two things you need to keep in mind. For a start, the text you type in will always be continuous, even if you click on "enter"(its the program we use). So the following Hints are to help you make your publication look the way you want it to.

#1. To start a new line (as opposed to letting our program do it as each line gets full), you must type in <br> exactly like that at the end of the line where you want the break, and the line will "break" at that point and restart on the immediate next line. This is especially necessary if you are typing poetry for example, or reported speech.

If you just want a new paragraph break, all you need to do is double click on Enter.

#2. To create a Bold heading (or make some text bold), press Ctrl and B at the same time. This will then show on your screen as <B></B> and your cursor should be blinking in the middle. If it is not, move it there. Then simply type in the words you want to be bold.

Now, this is very important- when you have completed the words you want bold- you must move the cursor to the right of </B>. Until that is done, everything you carry on typing will stay bold.

It is possible to go back to some text you have already typed and make it bold. If you want to do this, select the words you want bold by running your cursor over the text you want bold while holding the click down (this will make the selected text black), press Ctrl and B which will put <B> and </B> around the words, and then move the cursor back to where you want to continue typing.

If this is a heading and you want it on a seperate line, enter it as in #1 above.

#3. To create a footnote, press Ctrl and N at the same time. This will show as <FOOTNOTE_1> <FOOTNOTE1>on your screen with your cursor blinking in the middle. Type in your footnote, and remember to move your cursor to the right of the second <FOOTNOTE> when you have finished the footnote to return you to the text you are typing. Each Footnote is numbered consecutively automatically. 

To view your footnotes when you are working on the text, you will find them in numerical order at the bottom of all you have typed. They can be deleted (the numbers automatically readjust), or edited.

If later, you wish to insert another footnote anywhere in your text, click your cursor at the point you want it and simply repeat #3. The numbers will automatically adjust.